I am finally back in Hamburg, after 10 days in Tunisia. The vacation was fantastic, if a little… interesting. I went with my little sister, and we saw a lot of the country, were hosted by my sister’s lovely friend…

Enjoy this scene from The Warriors. This is the big fight scene in what is ostensibly the Union Square station, but what is actually the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in Brooklyn. Times have changed. I’m in both of those stations regularly, and…

This shocking report from the Guardian about young child workers in India “have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms…

Shorter Joel Stein: None of those slutty women at the Halloween party would go home with me. It always amuses me when people grouse about how Halloween is a wholesome kids’ holiday and the adults are ruining it, ruining it!.…

In the same vein as La Lubu, a comment is an inspiration for this post. In my previous post about Firestone, one comment stuck out to me the most. In response to the question (““Does pregnancy or sex comes first…

In the post on Intersecting Identities and Feminist Identification, commenter Tiffany of Houston summed up what I view as the core problem with one salient sentence: “I can’t take feminism as a movement seriously because I have a lack of…

For my feminism class, I have to do some research with a colleague on Canadian feminist Shulamith Firestone’s ”Dialectic of Sex” where she discusses the ”feminist revolution”. First written in 1970, Firestone discussed the barbaric nature of pregnancy, noting that…